Language Change: Identify whether the statement is True of False. Underline the word/s which made the statement False.



1. Pidgin is an example of a protolanguage.

2. The slang term Karen which refers to an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way is an example of hyperbole semantic change.

3. The emergence of the term jerjer as a colloquial term for sex is an example of functional consideration on language change.

4. Dove as an acceptable past tense of dive interchangeable with its regularly accepted past tense of dived is an example of structural pressure on language change.

5. Eva using Tagalog as her language when communicating with her kids who were born and raised in Germany is an example of language shift.

6. Latin is an example of a dead language.

7. Tagalog is the standard language in the Philippines.

8. Chavacano is a variety of Spanish spoken in Zamboanga City. This is an example of a creole language.















III. Language and Regional Variation



A. Analyze the concept on the first pair. Then relate that to identify the concept appropriate for the missing pair.



1. Accent: pronunciation

_____________ __________: grammar and vocabulary

2. Pidgin: trade language

_____________ __________: first language of a social community

3. Standard Language: idealized variety

_____________ __________: colloquial variety 4. Dialect boundary: 3 or more differences in linguistic item

_____________ __________ : a difference in a linguistic item

5-6. Bidialectical: speaking 2 dialects with ease

_____________ _____ : speaking 2 distinct languages

_____________ _____ : speaking 2 varieties of a language



B. Enumerate in correct order the 4 processes in language planning.

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C. Identify the concept being referred to.

11. Informants in the major dialect surveys of the 20th century are usually ______________________________________________________________________.

12. In the study of pidgins, ‘substrate’ is the language; 13. While ‘superstrate’ is the _____________ __________ language.



IV. Language and Cultural Identity A. Identify the concept being referred to.



1. _____________________________________________________ refers to the association of language with a person’s sense of self.

2. _____________________________________________________ refers to the association of one language variety with the membership in one national community.

3. ___________________________________ denotes any use of language that offends contemporary standards of correctness.

4. ____________________________________ refers to the variety of language which is selected/ taught in national educational systems/ protected by official grammars & dictionaries/ indicator of insiders & outsiders

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B. Enumerate the three (3) importance of membership to a social/discourse communication:

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